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[–] hoppolito@mander.xyz 85 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

I'm not so sure.

The right wing would be instantly defederated from the rest while the left wing builds three identical versions that all say they wanna go forward while pulling the plane in different directions.

Everybody hates the huge central fuselage but can't disconnect from it without falling from the sky.

Most of the discussion focuses on snide comments between the slightly different wing designs while all the critical tail components are held together by 3 single selfhosting admins. Then one of them goes on holiday and the tail fin just disappears.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 hours ago

And the pilots debate nihilism while the flight attendant asks if there's a doctor on the plane.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 32 points 19 hours ago

This is one of the single most accurate and succinct analogies of a tech space I have ever read, save possibly for the one that Neal Stephenson wrote about operating systems being car dealerships.

[–] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 21 points 19 hours ago

The two wings entirely forgetting that the point of their existence is to support the massive population in the centre of the airplane just trying to get where they're going is pretty peak political commentary